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The Green 30

Here are the Canadian companies that are leading the way in creating a new culture of environmentally responsible business

by Richard Yerema on Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:40pm - 7 Comments

Toronto Hydro Corp.
Electrical utility, Toronto

  • Gives out $10 transit subsidies each month to employees.
  • Employees and their families planted over 2,000 trees and shrubs for Earth Day since 2004.
  • Has saved 355 megawatts of electricity since 2005—enough to power approximately 240,000 homes—through recycling and reuse programs; converting vehicles to biodiesel and ethanol; maintains a solar panel array and installed the first urban wind turbine in North America.
  • Power saving initiatives for customers include giving away over 75,000 retractable clotheslines, handing out one free string of LED Christmas lights for every two incandescent strings returned, and a 10 per cent discount on summer electricity bills for residential customers who reduced their demand by 10 per cent from the previous summer; business customers get a 10 per cent credit on their summer electricity bills for a 10 per cent cut in energy consumed. (1,542)
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  • http://www.loleegreen.com loleeGreen

    I’m a bit disappointed to see some of the “highlights” for these greenest companies… employees can control their lighting (Sask Power)? employees get $1000 rebate for buying a hybrid car?? I mean, they’re great things to do but if that’s all the “greenest companies” do in Canada, we have a long long way to go… i would suggest looking at carbon footprint for a company’s operations, and looking at life cycle carbon footprint for a company’s products…

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  • wayne moores

    Just more window dressing and bafflegab to shut up the eco-loons. Plus big business has stolen a page from the eco-loons playbook. Wrap yourself in the eco flag and apply for a government grant. Also you can then shake down the consumer by earnestly saying you are increasing prices to “save the planet”. Nova Scotia Power piously announced they are expecting the consumer to absorb about 100 million dollars in additional costs so they can pretend to go green. This on top of endless increases automatically granted to NS Power every year. This used to be a government owner utility that was sold off at fire sale prices(200 million). It now generates a 100 million garenteed yearly profit which is shipped out of the province. What a farce.

  • David Bergeron

    I see Stikeman Elliott is part of the list. Here is an excerpt from their website:

    "We have Represented developers, owners and operators of energy projects involving conventional oil and gas properties, oil sands assets, pipeline systems, upgraders, refineries, extraction facilities, facilities to store natural gas and liquefied natural gas and other required infrastructure." Source:http://www.stikeman.com/cps/rde/xchg/se-en/hs.xsl…

    Stikeman Elliott's achievements list in oil, gas, tar sands:http://www.stikeman.com/en/pdf/Energy_Experience….

    Pardon my English, but are you guys retarded?

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